David Penaloza selected as Santa Ana’s new Mayor Pro Tem
The Santa Ana City Council selected Ward 6 Councilmember David Penaloza to serve as Mayor Pro Tem on Tuesday, January 20, 2026. Mayor Pro Tem Penaloza, a proud native of…
Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Benjamin Vazquez should apologize to the police union
Last week Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Benjamin Vazquez, who does not allow dissenters to tag him in social media posts, accused the Santa Ana Police Officers Association (SAPOA) of…
Councilmember Benjamin Vazquez selected as Santa Ana’s new Mayor Pro Tem
The Santa Ana City Council unanimously elected Ward 2 Councilmember Benjamin Vazquez to serve as Mayor Pro Tem on Tuesday, January 21. This is somewhat of a consolation prize for…
Benjamin Vazquez
Civic Affairs
Crime
David Penaloza
homeless
Jessie Lopez
Johnathan Ryan Hernandez
Phil Bacerra
Santa Ana
Thai Viet Phan
Valerie Amezcua
The Santa Ana City Council voted last night to do nothing about homeless encampments
Last night the woke majority of the Santa Ana City Council voted not to support a number of proposed amendments to strengthen the City of Santa Ana's anti-camping laws. They…
2024 Elections
Benjamin Vazquez
Civic Affairs
Democratic Party
Donald Trump
Elections
Jeffrey Katz
Jessie Lopez
Johnathan Ryan Hernandez
Julie Tran
Kamala Harris
Mario Alvarado
Politics
Rent Control
Republican Party
Santa Ana
Thai Viet Phan
Valerie Amezcua
Santa Ana Mayor Amezcua is leading and the undocumented voting measure is losing in early election results
The early election results are out and it appears that Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua is easily trouncing her police-bashing opponent, Santa Ana City Councilman Ben Vazquez, by almost 9,000…
2024 Elections
Benjamin Vazquez
Civic Affairs
Elections
Jeffrey Katz
Jessie Lopez
Johnathan Ryan Hernandez
Julie Tran
Mario Alvarado
Politics
Santa Ana
Thai Viet Phan
Valerie Amezcua
Will Santa Ana’s anti-police City Council Members get the boot in the Nov. 5 election?
Santa Ana City Council Members have to run for re-election every four years. This year three of them are up for re-election, and as luck would have it they are…
2024 Elections
Benjamin Vazquez
Civic Affairs
Democratic Party
Elections
Politics
Santa Ana
Valerie Amezcua
Who is Benjamin Vazquez, the man trying to beat Santa Ana’s first woman Mayor?
Santa Ana City Councilman Benjamin Vazquez is challenging Santa Ana's first woman Mayor, Valerie Amezcua, in this November's General Election, which is on Nov. 5. Vazquez, was first elected to…
Benjamin Vazquez
Civic Affairs
Johnathan Ryan Hernandez
Phil Bacerra
Santa Ana
Taxes
Valerie Amezcua
The City of Santa Ana is looking at financial doom because businesses don’t want to locate here
The City of Santa Ana is facing bankruptcy in five years, when $30 million in local sales taxes go offline – part of a decrease in Measure X, the sales tax…
The Santa Ana City Council punted the lame Palestinian resolution by Hernandez and Vazquez
https://www.youtube.com/live/YaDW4glTssI?feature=shared Santa Ana City Council Members Johnathan Hernandez and Ben Vazquez wasted hours of everyone's time last night with their ridiculous resolution calling on a ceasefire in Israel's ongoing battle…
The Santa Ana City Council will consider an anti-Semitic resolution next week
The anti-Semitic movement that began on the Santa Ana School Board has now crept into the Santa Ana City Council's next meeting agenda. Santa Ana anti-police City Council Members Johnathan…
Benjamin Vazquez
David Penaloza
Luis Mier
Manuel Escamilla
Nelida Mendoza
Phil Bacerra
Politics
Santa Ana
Several anti-police candidates are running for the Santa Ana City Council this November
The Santa Ana City Council candidates are starting to pull their nomination papers and we are beginning to get some clarity as to who will be running this November. So…
2020 Elections
Benjamin Vazquez
Cecilia Iglesias
Civic Affairs
Claudia Alvarez
Elections
Jose Solorio
Miguel Pulido
Politics
Sal Tinajero
Santa Ana
Vicente Sarmiento
A preview of this November’s Santa Ana Mayoral election
The recently concluded Santa Ana Recall Election was a grueling experience but it won't be long before we start getting bombarded by mail yet again from the candidates for the…
2018 elections
Angie Rosario Cano
Art Pedroza
Benjamin Vazquez
Crime
David Penaloza
Irma Macias
John Palacio
Miguel Pulido
Mike Gonzalez
Mirna Velasquez
Nelida Mendoza
Paul Gonzales
Politics
Sal Tinajero
Sandra Pena
Santa Ana
SAUSD
Valerie Amezcua
Don’t let Santa Ana’s cop haters win in this year’s General Election
I was at an SAUSD school board forum last week and was shocked when some of the boorish radicals in the audience booed when they heard that I got a…
2016 Elections
2018 elections
Angelica Amezcua
Benjamin Vazquez
David De Leon
Miguel Pulido
Politics
Santa Ana
The campaign to recall Mayor Pulido failed to collect enough nominating signatures
[caption id="attachment_62406" align="aligncenter" width="198"] David De Leon and Angie Amezcua[/caption] Do you remember Angie Amezcua? She was accidentally elected a little over four years ago in Santa Ana's Ward 3.…
2016 Elections
Alfonso Alvarez
Angie Rosario Cano
Benjamin Vazquez
Cecilia Iglesias
Claudia Alvarez
Democratic Party
Education
Jessica Byulnim Cha
Miguel Pulido
Politics
Republican Party
Roman Reyna
Santa Ana
SAUSD
Vicente Sarmiento
Vietnamese
Several lame Santa Ana political candidates are blowing off almost half the voters…
You are probably as sick of this year's general election as I am. The last few weeks have given us all plenty to dislike about the top two presidential nominees…